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AW5X: QT3 problem w/ AW5 packaged for Mac

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From: Online
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 00:00
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After some effort, I've finally gotten a Windows-developed AW5 piece
packaged on a Macintosh (with the Authorware 5.0 Mac Player - 5.0 b1
F2 public beta). The only remaining problem I have is that when
Quicktime 3 videos are displayed on a Mac they're "stretched" from top
to bottom ... rather than at the 240 x 180 frame size they were
intended to be they appear to be something along the lines of 300 x
180. All of the videos are using the "Scale" framing option. If I use
the "Crop" framing option the video and controller are cropped on the
left and right and the user can't control the video properly. I'm
using the "Direct to Stage" and "Show Controller" options. I'm not
calling any of the sprite properties.

Any advice would be appreciated.

By the way, this may be common knowledge, but ... If anyone is having
problems with getting videos stored in a separate folder to display
after packaging it for a Mac, try renaming the relative path in the
Windows piece like this ":Videos:xxx.mov" rather than
"\Videos\xxx.mov" or "Videos\xxx.mov". NOTE: You have to preface the
path with a leading ":". It'll still play on the Windows version, and
the path will also be understood by Macs I've emailed Macromedia about
this and hope they'll make a fix to this on the next version of the
Mac Player/Packager.

Big thanks,
Doug
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